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so that he could be buried with honors on Har HaMenuchot.

It's an amazing story.

So what is the story? He's this guy, uh, and then in, um, uh, I believe it was in 1909, two things happened to him.

Uh, first of all, uh, I think it was 1909, just off the top of my head.

The emperor dies, and he has this great general who is, like, uh, very well, well-regarded.

Yeah, of course.

Mm-hmm.

Like, where you have the Jews who are artificially restrained by a series of anti-Semitic discriminatory legislation or social discrimination and things like that.

And as soon as the society allows the Jews to express themselves more fully, then they, like, bound out of the box like a jack-in-the-box and are able to surprise the whole world with what they're able to come up with.

Their innovations in cultural and science and technology and things like that.

That, that's, I think, the metaphor, and I think you can see that to one degree or another through much of Jewish history.

You see it, uh, even in, you know, 11th century Ashkenaz.

You certainly see it in 12th century, um, or 10th century Spain, you know, the beginning of the Golden Age.

Mm